The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... virtue in themselves and others , thereby becoming so deservedly in favour with this age , and so good a proof of its nice discernment . His judgement , naturally good , soon ripened into an exquisite fine- ness and distinguishing ...
... virtue in themselves and others , thereby becoming so deservedly in favour with this age , and so good a proof of its nice discernment . His judgement , naturally good , soon ripened into an exquisite fine- ness and distinguishing ...
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... virtues of Tamerlane seem to have been arbitrarily assigned him by his poet , for I know not that history gives any other qualities than those which make a conqueror . The fashion , however , of the time was , to accumulate upon Lewis ...
... virtues of Tamerlane seem to have been arbitrarily assigned him by his poet , for I know not that history gives any other qualities than those which make a conqueror . The fashion , however , of the time was , to accumulate upon Lewis ...
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... virtues , was to fall before a tyrant . The fact is certain ; the motives we must guess . Addison was , I believe ... virtue . Addison was frighted , lest he should be thought a promoter of insurrection , and the line was liquidated ...
... virtues , was to fall before a tyrant . The fact is certain ; the motives we must guess . Addison was , I believe ... virtue . Addison was frighted , lest he should be thought a promoter of insurrection , and the line was liquidated ...
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... virtue in the sentiments , or elegance in the language . He engaged in a nobler work , a defence of the Christian Religion , of which part was published after his death ; and he designed to have made a new poetical version of the Psalms ...
... virtue in the sentiments , or elegance in the language . He engaged in a nobler work , a defence of the Christian Religion , of which part was published after his death ; and he designed to have made a new poetical version of the Psalms ...
Pàgina 107
... virtue it is a sufficient testimony , that the resentment of party has transmitted no charge of any crime . crime . He was not one of those who are praised only after death ; for his merit was so ge- nerally acknowledged , that Swift ...
... virtue it is a sufficient testimony , that the resentment of party has transmitted no charge of any crime . crime . He was not one of those who are praised only after death ; for his merit was so ge- nerally acknowledged , that Swift ...
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